Re: She's Back

JF Mezei wrote:
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
If Sue wants to take a job with Microsoft, "Mr. VAXman" will suffer silently.

When have you known Mr VAXman to be silent about Microsoft ?

Should Sue accept a job with Microsoft, I think we might find a
situation similar to those Star Trek episodes where Kirk asked the right
question to a computer which then went into an infinite loop and ceased
to function because of the conflict between its actions and the question.

Mr MAXman would be in an irreconcilable conflict between his
love/support for Sue, and his strong (understandment) feelings against
the low quality software spitted out by Microsoft. I can imagine steam
coming off his ears :-)

I'd be inclined to dispute the attribution of "low quality" to Microsoft's software. Granted, early releases of MS-DOS and Windows were not very good but Microsoft is hardly the only company to have software quality problems. Their software is used, or misused, by just about everyone who uses computers today! With tens of millions of users, any vulnerability in the software is going to manifest sooner or later and probably sooner.

I've been using Windows/XP for four or five years now and I've found it relatively trouble free. There may be malware that can successfully attack it but first it has to get through my firewall; no easy thing to do.
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